Nassim Nicholas Taleb — "Academia is a graveyard of ideas."
Academia is a graveyard of ideas.
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"The most overrated virtue is intelligence. The most underrated virtue is courage."
"The more you try to predict the future, the more you are fooled by randomness."
"The greatest minds are those who can simplify complex ideas without distorting them."
"Hotel heuristic: In a new hotel, always reject the first room they give you."
"The only thing worse than a fool is a smart fool."
About Nassim Nicholas Taleb (born 1960)
Lebanese-American probabilist and The Black Swan (2007) author whose work on tail risk and antifragility reshaped finance and policy thinking. Closely associated with Benoit Mandelbrot (fractal mathematician, Taleb's mentor figure). For an intellectual contrast, see Steven Pinker, Harvard psychologist and The Better Angels of Our Nature author — Taleb has spent the 2010s publicly attacking Pinker's data-driven 'things are getting better' optimism as naive Gaussian thinking under fat-tailed reality — the loudest public statistics argument of the decade.